You calling the Aussie accent weird?

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You Americans have a funny accent. Strewth, yours is stranger than us Ossies.
Impossible to describe though. Just funny different.

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Fit 'e gan?

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Excuse me? :astonished:

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Ah dinnae want te fecht!

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Ah
me neither Besoeker, I think I’m beginning to pick this up :wink: :+1:

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Charles Murray (27 September 1864 – 12 April 1941) was a poet who wrote in the Doric dialect of Scots.

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I find the Australian Accent on my sister really strange, she went out there years ago just after she got married. I always dissolve into giggles at her (but out of slapping range) if she’s here in Scotland for a visit.
She finds it strange that I still have my sing song lyrical Western Isles Brogue, but I never lost it, despite being on the Mainland for so long.

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I love all accents - although I sometimes have problems understanding them! One of my neighbours is Italian and when she gets excited and talks fast I really can’t follow what she is saying. My favourite accent is Southern Irish - but I could be prejudiced as I had the good sense to marry a man from Southern Ireland!

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Noh, weehr oll the sayme, mate!

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On the back of my daughter’s Jimney is a sign which says, “Welcome to Ken Barra”

Apparently that was the automatic sub title translation of the commentator saying, “Welcome to Canberra” on a live footie broadcast (presumably the Canberra Raiders)

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I am proud to say that I translated it before you wrote that it was Canberra.

I guess that makes me bilingual now!

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I love this girl, as she says, she looks Chinese but sounds like she starts fights in pubs.

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Love that one. Surprising. :slightly_smiling_face:

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she’s my type of woman wherever she comes from - I definitely like discipline??

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I understand the Australian accent is derived from the cockney accent because of the number of convicts who were sent there from London. :smiley:

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There is another theory.People from different parts of the UK had never mixed together before. And the Aussie accent is an amalgamation of all the many different regional accents.

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Including my ancestors :slightly_smiling_face: Fine convict stock

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Hi Bret
absolutely they had the pioneer spirit :icon_cool:

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